Hiring a new coach should have been a slam dunk, but it was instead an airball, and the failure shows the depths to which the Lakers' reputation has fallen.
Dan Hurley is considered one of the best basketball minds on the planet. He doesn’t want to work for the Lakers. Dan Hurley was offered more than double his current salary as the current Connecticut coach — $70 million — to leave Storrs for Hollywood. He told the Lakers to keep their money.
Hurley is a unicorn, but so are the Lakers, and it was a match made in purple-and-gold heaven. Most thought the Lakers would land him. How could the Lakers not land him? Wasn’t this the same Lakers organization that talked the great Phil Jackson into coming out of retirement twice? Wasn’t this the same Lakers organization that always acquired the prize player, whomever they wanted, whenever they wanted, from Wilt to Kareem to Shaq to LeBron to A.D.? Not anymore.
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